An Underrated Technique To Improve Your Data Visualizations

At times, ensuring that your plot conveys the right message may require you to provide additional context. Yet, augmenting extra plots may clutter your whole visualization.

One great way to provide extra info is by adding text annotations to a plot.

In matplotlib, you can use 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞(). It adds explanatory texts to your plot, which lets you guide a viewer's attention to specific areas and aid their understanding.

Find more info here: Matplotlib docs.

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